Just been listening to the last two Talk Talk albums and still can't beleive they're from the same band who did 'It's my life'. Definitely a change for the better though.
Any other suggestions?
Just been listening to the last two Talk Talk albums and still can't beleive they're from the same band who did 'It's my life'. Definitely a change for the better though.
Any other suggestions?
wasn't that a Bon Jovi song?
it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever!
IT'S MY LIFE! (bwaahmp bwaamp)
Dr Alban surely?
this instantly reminded me of an Australian band called Gerling
who played some shows with Seafood and Idlewild (i think, might have been Ash) at the turn of the century and did this pretty cool pop-rock kind of thing. Then they released possibly one of the worst albums ever, it was a bit like a really bad Lemonjelly. Bizarre! Anyone else remember them?
Indeed
I immediately thought of Talk Talk upon reading the title
Ministry went from 80's synth pop shit to brutal industrial metal in a couple of albums too
As soon as I saw the thread title
I thought Ministry as well!
It still makes me laugh when I think of all the people who paid through the nose for early Ministy albums, only to find they were completely turgid shit.
what???
the first two ministry albums are brilliant, much better than what came after. after that alain jourgensen tried to be all 'hard' and 'aggro-industrial-metal'. if you ask him about that first album he would probably try to tell you it didn't exist, but it's just as good as anything like it from that era.
Everyday Is Halloween
yep, they used to be a fuzzy dance band and the first two were great. "Twitch" though, you could see what was coming on that one. I was living in Chicago at the time and Jourgensen was living in the upstairs of my favorite record shop (wax trax). I remember how shocked everyone was by the change- and then boom, Revolting Cocks!
Weren't they like that anyway?
Doing alt-rock one minute and floaty electro the next.
Wasn't Sub Sub's album supposed to be a rawer version of what they became as Doves?
i didn't have the first album
but I saw them support someone and they did pretty much a straight up half hour of 3 minute guitar pop tunes as far as I remember.
Then I bought this yellow album with crazy artwork, and it was totally wack.
Really?
That's my favorite Gerling album. The one before it sounded like a even blander Lemon Jelly.
maybe all these years
I've been mixing them up with someone else who was on the same bill. I'm pretty sure it was at the Garage in Highbury.
Oh well - that album is still terrible! Wasn't there a Kylie Minogue duet on there or am I making that up?
The 2nd album did feature Kylie Minogue
and was really bad (except for The Deer In You single). They found there form again with the forth album.
ha...
No, it exists. Maybe it's because they're pretty big here. I remember everybody going a bit nuts when it came out and there was all this controversy about the name and stuff. I still enjoy though (even the Kylie song!)
Now I'm at home
These were the two singles from that first Gerling album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kqa8-Bg-fQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unpPkE41--Y
OMG Gerling
there's a band I hadn't thought about for a while.
DEATH TO THE APPLE GIRLS!
GERLING!!!
I bought one of their albums for a £1 and it was enjoyable but bewilderingly random.
GERLING!
Christ, I've got an album of theres somewhere, there's some alright tracks on it.
GERLING
Children of Telepathic Experiences.
Great album.
Kaiser Chiefs
Back when they were Parva. Haven't heard much of the early stuff but it was *very* different from their current proletarian terrace-chant rock bobbins.
And er...Genesis?
Parva's not all that different
While there's some "have you heard of this place called New York? We've decided to co-opt some of its rock music for you", they did a single called Good Bad Right Wrong in which Wilson sings in his proper accent for once and it sounds *exactly* like it could have been on Employment.
Chumbawamba
From shouty OI punk to acapella English folk songs to 'pop' anthems to an electronic soundtrack album to a five-piece folk band via excursions into dance beats and rap.
i put forward
Saves The Day
REO Speedwagon
went from good time country boy rock n' roll in the 70s to rubbish power ballad wasters in the 80s. Check out the live album 'You Get What You Play For', it's awesome. Don't check out 'Hi-Fidelity', it's rubbish.
Apparently the guitarist from the Wamba
lives on my street. Fact!
blur maybe?
.
I guess
the jump from great escape to blur was quite a change in style, but Blur's progression has always seemed quite organic to me.
Scorn
First album was Godflesh-esque grindcore/industrial, later stuff was dubby minimal electronica. The new album's apparently a bit dubstep, though I haven't heard it.
Also Spring Heel Jack went from drum'n'bass to full-on free jazz/improv.
coldplay
I only just realised last night that violet hill is by coldplay - much more upbeat than their usual samey stuff!
Surely one of the biggest changes MUST be Japan
please examine this for evidence;
From, essentially, Spinal Tap
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4SrCMpP9H0g&feature=related
to this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A_e3RbwzzdA
creepy-ass minimalism, and possibly the unlikeliest Top 5 hit of all time.
Agreed on Talk Talk as well, though Colour Of Spring does act as somewhat of a bridge between the early later stuff (though admittedly not much of a bridge)
The transformation of Japan!
This might be my favourite DiS post ever.
Brilliant!
why thank you.
the original
'doing a Radiohead'
Chapterhouse
nice twee boys playing shoegazing back in the day used to be a thrash band called 'incest' allegedly
When
I saw the thread title I was going to suggest Talk Talk. The only common thread running through their work is Mark Hollis's voice, really.
Also, The Notwist, maybe? Grunge metal to pastoral indie electronica.
In terms of sheer variety
I'd say Smashing Pumpkins. From Gish to Adore via the likes of Lily on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a pretty eclectic path...
By 'variety'
you mean 'not sounding that much different', right?
How highly ignorant...
.
18 Wheeler?
Good shout.
Primal Scream as well, in a similar kinda way.
Was one at a New Labour do in Blackpool in the 90's
before they were elected. They were hosting a band night in Blackpool or something. Anyway, Tony Blair was there (as leader of opposition) and introduced them as Wheeler 18. Us kids laughed.
*once
Really??
Brilliant. Despite the fact they were actually shite, The Hours & The Times was a cracker of a tune.
Really really
He even brought Mrs Blair. Not sure if she was a QC at the time. Back then he was a nobody. I don't remember any of their songs though, just that they were guitar-based then went "dancey" or electronic or something. And at the time Noel Gallagher saying how much he liked their newer stuff.
A viable judge of talent if ever there were one.
I mean, Proud Mary were huge, thanks to him.
Liars?
I remember going to see them just before 'They were wrong...' came out, having only heard their first album. That was a little bit of a surprise. Then I saw them just before Drum's Not Dead came out, and I couldn't believe how awesome they'd become. And the s/t album sounded like Nirvana and Jesus and Mary Chain.
.
Brand New's third offering, 'The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me' was wildly different from 'Your Favourite Weapon'...hard to believe it's the same band.
Ministry?
The biggest change I can think of is:
Manitoba from Start Breaking my Heart which was quite minimal electronica stuff to Up in Flames which was lots of drumming noisy MBV shizzle.
Also, i enjoyed Primal Screams change from Vanishing Point to XTRMTR.
Atatris
their most recent album is totally differrent from the pop/ska punk (i dont know if that is right - im fairly ignorant of both those genres) style of their 'classic' (as my friend would say) earlier work.. there new one actually has som nice stuff on it here and there.
Not a band
but Tom Waits - from piano led crooner to voodoo percussive genius
Foals
With Andy Mears = turd. Without = brilliant.
Foals
Without Ray Mears = overhyped. With = great survival skills.
Another vote for Ministry here
Twitch to The Last Sucker via Psalm 69 and The Land of Rape & Honey is a bizarre journey.
The Cure
From Pornography to Love Cats in what, a year?
good call
you forgot
with sympathy, before twitch haha now thats a BAD album!
Foals
Without garden shears = boring. With = potentially dangerous
Chromatics?
They sound almost entirely different.
How about...
Jefferson Airplane mutating into the horrible Jefferson Starship. Still struggle to get my head around that.
and then to
the 80's "we built this city..." STARSHIP
has anyone mentioned scott walker yet!?
i love how at the beginning of his career he was a boy-band pin-up and over time his music became increasingly experimental! on top of that, it's all awesome!
yeh chromatics
i was going to see them the other month and got all excited and then i saw they had a new album so i listened to it and cried. i thought there might be 2 different bands?
but their new album is brilliant
Wilco
From 'A.M.' to 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot', although they seem to have regressed again.
Black Dice?
going from hardcore to whatever you care to call their music now
namby-pambient
is what my friend called their middle period.
Beck
The Banjo Story / Midnite Vultures
Bad Brains?
Hardcore to reggae? surley
weren't Bad Brains
some kind of jazz fusion act before they became Bad Brains as well>
they featured reggae on the first album though
less of a leap in sound, more sort of being adept at two types of music throughout their career
THE BEATLES
^^^Thats what I was thinking
Incubus?
Funk rock - Nu Metal - Anthemic Orck - Punky americana - MOR Shite.
talking heads
don't worry about the government to born under punches in 3 years. still can't get my head around it.
incbus definately
a crow left of the murder is a great album then they release love grenades.oh god
Bandon Boyd is an anthemic Ork.
Cave In?
Definitely Cave In.
Panic At The Disco?
(compare the singles from the 1st album to the second half of the 2nd album and you'll understand)
i had them in mind too
i love the 1st album but reckon the 2nd one in general is shite.
aww
I love their second album! The electro bits on the first one annoyed me a bit, but 'Time To Dance' makes up for aaaall of it :D
scott walker
though it took 30 years to get there. the stone roses, after sally cinnamon i doubt anyone thought they'd go all led zeppelin. radiohead, obviously. bowie every second year in the 70's.
I'm suprised
people have hardly mentioned the notwist! They went from being a grunge/heavy rock band to making almost postal service-esque electronic music! Thats a big change if ever there was one surely?
obvious one but
Radiohead?
I
mentioned them. But I was the only one.
Mock Orange
Went from doing Braid worship to doing Modest Mouse worship. I still love them though.
Ulver
end of thread.
the faint maybe?
their first album is really awful and whiney.
The Beach Boys
If you believe the hype
Modest Mouse
Lonesome Crowded West - Very Raw Art Punk Lo-Fi Approach
Moon & Antarctica - Spacey atmosphere, More refined electronic elements, alot more atmospheric and brooding as well as a lot more conceptial.
Good News For People Who Love Bad News -A lot more pop orientated, a lot of standard song arrangements, songs averaging at around 3 minutes... A lot more folky/tom waits... complete abandonment of the Moon & Antarctica sound (spare paper thin walls)
3 very different albums within 7years
Scott Walker is the answer
Scott Walker
One more time: Scott Walker
Notwist
from early 90s grunge-metal or sparse beats and samples autumnal indie
Talk Talk
Radiohead
Animal Collective sound very different with each record.
oops can't use reply
Heatmiser
Off topic slightly, but Talk Talk related,
I can't stop listening to Runeii off Laughing Stock. It's absolutely beautiful.
Sticky Fingers
Stones
Leonard Cohen
Listen to one of the "Songs..." albums. Then listen to "I'm Your Man". Spend half an hear picking ears and eating wax in disbelief. Then rejoice because they are both awesome
Or
Athlete. Started as relatively charming and quirky (for British indie) band, sucked Satan's pecker until they bloated into Snowplay style cash cow
said before
say it again, Alexisonfire
Spandau Ballet
Muscle Bound to Gold - quite a leap.
hefner?
Definitely Cave In
crushing metal to space rock is quite a leap.
Dillinger also kinda, if you compare say The Mullet Burden to Unretrofied.
Oh and Hopesfall
spacey melodic hardcore to radio rock bores. Tragic that was.
not quite as much as some other bands
but the clash- s/t to stuff like sandinista, quite different